| | Tuesday, January 17, 2006, 7pm
Ampitheater
209 East 23rd Street, 3rd floor School of Visual Arts presents Embodied Meanings as Aesthetic Ideas, a lecture by distinguished author and scholar Arthur Danto. Professor Danto will discuss Immanuel Kant, Clement Greenberg and his own critical practice based on three decades of writing about art. With this program, the newly-formed MFA Department of Art Criticism and Writing launches The Critics Series, a new series of lectures by pre-eminent thinkers and writers in the visual arts. The lecture takes place Tuesday, January 17, 7pm at School of Visual Arts, 209 East 23rd Street, New York City. Admission is free. Arthur Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. His books include The Abuse of Beauty, After the End of Art, The Madonna of the Future, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Embodied Meanings, Beyond the Brillo Box, Philosophizing Art and Encounters & Reflections, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize for Criticism. Professor Danto is the recipient of numerous fellowships and grants including two Guggenheims and a Fulbright. Upcoming speakers include art critic Mira Schor (February 14), author David Carrier (March 2) and Thomas McEvilley (April 13), chair of the MFA Department of Art Criticism and Writing at SVA. For more information about the lecture series, call 212.592.2408.
Established in Fall 2005, the MFA Department of Art Criticism and Writing offers a select number of students the rare opportunity to learn the art of art criticism in an environment where art is being made. The curriculum is designed to foster development of both a professional and philosophical engagement with the visual arts while building a body of written work through courses in art theory, criticism, writing skills and several elective topics. Faculty members include Suzanne Anker, Bill Beckley, Susan Bee, Thomas Huhn, Donald Kuspit, David Levi Strauss, Thomas McEvilley, Raphael Rubinstein and Mira Schor.
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